python requests: how to check for "200 OK"

Question

What is the easiest way to check whether the response received from a requests post was "200 OK" or an error has occurred?

I tried doing something like this:

.... resp = requests.post(my_endpoint_var, headers=header_var, data=post_data_var) print(resp) if resp == "<Response [200]>":     print ('OK!') else:     print ('Boo!') 

The output on the screen is:

Response [200] (including the "<" and ">") Boo! 

So even though I am getting a 200, my check in the if statement is somehow not matching?

Answer 1

According to the docs, there's a status_code property on the response-object. So you can do the following:

if resp.status_code == 200:     print ('OK!') else:     print ('Boo!') 

EDIT:

As others have pointed out, a simpler check would be

if resp.ok:     print ('OK!') else:     print ('Boo!') 

if you want to consider all 2xx response codes and not 200 explicitly. You may also want to check Peter's answer for a more python-like way to do this.